Film revisits Attica prison uprising

12:58 AM,
Mar. 19, 2012

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As Traycee Timian-Barkley and Dee Quinn Miller recently watched jolting film excerpts from the brutal 1971 retaking of the Attica prison, they grasped hands.

The two did not know each other well, but they had a painful connection: Miller's father, corrections officer William Quinn, was fatally beaten during the inmate uprising of Sept. 9 and Timian-Barkley's brother, L.D Barkley, was fatally shot in the deadly seizure of the prison four days later.

"We lost loved ones in a very tragic way," Timian-Barkley said. "As human beings, we always seek to have closure in events that happen in our ...